Sphenoparietal suture

Sphenoparietal suture
	File:SchaedelSeitlichSutur2 - Sphenoparietal suture.png Sphenoparietal suture in red.
	File:Sphenoparietal suture - lateral view.png Position of sphenoparietal suture Parietal bone Sphenoid bone
Details
Latin	Sutura sphenoparietalis
Identifiers
Dorlands; /Elsevier	12774191
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The Sphenoparietal suture is the cranial suture between the sphenoid bone and the parietal bone. It is one of the sutures that comprises the pterion.

Additional images

Sphenoparietal suture.gif

Position of sphenoparietal suture (shown in red). Animation.
Sphenoparietal suture4.gif

Parietal bones (above) and sphenoid bone (below).
Side view of the skull. Sphenoparietal suture indicated by the arrow.
Gray164 - Sphenoparietal suture.png

Left zygomatic bone in situ. (Sphenoparietal suture visible at upper right in blue.)

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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